"We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them."

-- Simone Weil

#Grace Quotes #Wish Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“Heart is what separates the good from the great.”
“Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.”
“I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.”
“My very first professional job was with a theatre company in 1965 and the first job they gave me was literally shovelling sh*t. I was an assistant stage manager and they told me to clear out the prop store. I opened it up and no-one had been in there for 25 years and it was inches deep in rat sh*t. So before I could get anywhere I had to clear it up. I thought, 'All these years of training, the best drama school in the world, and this is what I'm doing.'”
“Moments of pure happiness come upon you unexpectedly. Don't be too preoccupied to experience them.”
“Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking a towel and washing feet.”
“After I broke my leg I had to go back and do one of the remakes of 'The Magnificent Seven' and ended up on a horse that pitched me off and broke my leg again... I rode horses pretty well. I just didn't like doing it.”

Source : "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.
“In order to save the forty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, our colonial statesmen must acquire new lands for settling the surplus population of this country, to provide new markets... The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question.”

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